The Press back issues from December 2005:
Alarm at rising teenage abortion rate
Dec 01, 2005; ... Doctors say drink, drugs and haphazard or non-existentcontraception have contributed to an "alarming" increase in abortionsamong Christchurch girls aged under 16. More than three times as many under- 16s had abortions atChristchurch's Lyndhurst Day Hospital in 2004 than the year ...
Public patients wait as private goals met
Dec 01, 2005; ... Canterbury health managers are at a loss to explain whyorthopaedic surgeons working privately are meeting surgery targetswhile their public patients are left to wait. Both sectors use the same surgeons, largely operating at the samehospitals. Canterbury's health service is ...
Axe attack triggers chase; Road workers rescue bleeding bush victim
Dec 01, 2005; ... Road workers last night helped rescue a bleeding elderly manattacked by an axe- wielding assailant -- sparking a high-speedpolice chase across Canterbury. The attack, in the tiny alpine locality of Bealey, about 15kmsouth-east of Arthurs Pass, left a man with gashes to his back ...
Axe attack triggers chase
Dec 01, 2005; ... Road workers last night rescued a bleeding elderly man attackednear Arthurs Pass by an axe-wielding assailant -- sparking a high-speed police chase across Canter bury. The attack in the tiny alpine settlement of Bealey, about 15kmsouth-east of Arthurs Pass, left a man with gashes ...
Police probe sale of uniform
Dec 01, 2005; ... A top-level police investigation is under way to stop the auctionof a New Zealand Police uniform on an international website. The Press found a current New Zealand Police uniform jacket andcap for sale for $US60 on the eBay trade website. An old-style jacketwas also for sale ....
Woman's death shows DVT danger
Dec 01, 2005 ... The sudden death of a Christchurch woman is a salutary warning ofthe dangers of deep vein thrombosis, coroner Richard McElrea says. Pamela Anne Prinsep, a 67-year- old retiree, died unexpectedly onDecember 21 last year. Pathologist Martin Sage found she had diedfrom a pulmonary ...
Special Olympics open with grand march-past
Dec 01, 2005 ... A raucous crowd, clapping in unison, cheered in more than 1200dazzled competitors at the National and Asia Pacific Special OlympicInvitation Games opening ceremony at Christchurch's Westpac Centrelast night. Exclamations about sore feet and cold hands could be heard fromthe line ...
Making the world smell nice again; A BETTER SENSE OF SMELL
Dec 01, 2005; ... For 17 years something as simple as a whiff of perfume or freshcoffee could fill Trina Liggins' nostrils with an overwhelmingputrid, nauseating stench. The Dunedin woman had been stricken by what appeared to be amystery medical condition, later identified as phantosmia, that ...
Fees to rise for private schooling; SELECT SCHOOL FEES
Dec 01, 2005; ... SELECT SCHOOL FEES Private school fees for senior students in Christchurch for 2005were: nRangi Ruru Girls' School, $11,185. nSt Andrew's College, $11,628. nChrist's College, $12,245. nSt Margaret's College, $11,058. nBoarding fees are an ...
Colleagues shocked by kidnapping
Dec 01, 2005 ... The kidnapping of an Auckland University student doinghumanitarian work in Iraq has left friends and colleagues shaken. Harmeet Singh Sooden had been studying literature at theUniversity of Auckland in New Zealand before travelling to Iraq. The 32-year-old Canadian, an ...
Witness sought
Dec 01, 2005 ... Christchurch police would like to talk to the driver of a vehiclethat approached a police car in Barbour Street at about 2.15am onSaturday. The driver, who had an intoxicated ...
Correction
Dec 01, 2005 ... A photo caption in The Press yesterday incorrectly identifiedCanterbury University vice-chancellor Professor Roy ...
Complex approved
Dec 01, 2005 ... MURCHISON -- The $2.4 million first stage of the Murchison Sport,Recreation and Cultural complex has been approved as a facilitiesrate- funded project by the Tasman District Council. The corporateservices committee has agreed to a budget for the project to beginafter September 1, 2006 ....
Water restrictions
Dec 01, 2005 ... NELSON -- Stage one water restrictions will come into effect inNelson today. The restrictions allow odd numbered houses to usesprinklers on odd days only and even numbered properties to usesprinklers on even days. Nelson City Council's technical manager AlecLouverdis said the ...
Riverbed blaze
Dec 01, 2005 ... CHRISTCHURCH -- Department of Conservation (DOC) staff areinvestigating a riverbed fire that burnt about 1ha of scrub andwillow in North Canterbury on Tuesday night. Two fire crews fromCulverden and two from the Hurunui District Council fought the blazeabout 3km ...
Subdivision hearing
Dec 01, 2005 ... BLENHEIM -- A resource consent hearing is considering plans byPeter Yealands to build a subdivision that would see a town the sizeof Havelock spring up at Kaiuma Bay in the Marlborough Sounds. Theresource consent application for what would become known as KaiumaPark Estate is being ...
Cyclist dies
Dec 01, 2005 ... CHRISTCHURCH -- A 73-year-old woman cyclist knocked from her cycleat a Christchurch intersection on Tuesday died yesterday in hospital.The accident was at the corner of Stanmore Road ...
Tree-top stage for men's rights
Dec 01, 2005; ... Double amputee Kevin Gill spent 22 hours on the top of a 10m hightree stump outside Nelson in the name of men's rights. The Motueka men's advocate took his protest against airlinepolicies -- which ban men from sitting beside children travellingalone -- to the top of a recently ...
Vineyard posts pose aquifer risk
Dec 01, 2005; ... Poison, including arsenic, is leaching from vineyard posts intosoils and aquifers in wine regions, new studies show. The studies in Marlborough, where millions of wooden posts supportthe region's wine industry, show vineyards above aquifers posed asmall risk to water quality ....
Airgun sparks alert
Dec 01, 2005 ... CHRISTCHURCH -- Police cordoned a central Christchurch houseyesterday after a man was spotted carrying what was thought to be ahand-gun. Police cordoned the ...
Complex approved
Dec 01, 2005 ... MURCHISON -- The $2.4 million first stage of the Murchison Sport,Recreation and Cultural complex has been approved as a facilitiesrate- funded project by the Tasman District Council. The corporateservices committee has agreed to a budget for the project ...
Contractor loses hand
Dec 01, 2005 ... ASHBURTON -- A man lost a hand in a farm accident on Tuesdaynight. The man, employed by a local contracting firm, was ...
Call to involve parents in education
Dec 01, 2005; ... Involving parents in their children's education is one of the maingoals of new Education Minister Steve Maharey. Maharey said as part of the orientation for his portfolio he hadasked to visit schools and centres considered "success stories" whereschools had introduced successful ...
EU calls for closer security relations
Dec 01, 2005; ... One of Europe's top security chiefs wants to involve New Zealandin a closer relationship to counter global terrorism. Franco Frattini, vice-president of the European Commission and itssecurity commissioner, told Prime Minister Helen Clark in Brusselsyesterday that there was scope ...
Residents concerned by Ashburton Hospital move
Dec 01, 2005; ... Some Ashburton district residents are worried about the proposedaxing of after- hours and acute surgery at Ashburton Hospital. A Canterbury District Health Board committee has concluded thatafter-hours surgery at the hospital is not sustainable, meaning after-hours and high-risk ...
Contest for water looms
Dec 01, 2005; ... Ngai Tahu Properties and the Central Plains Water Trust will gohead-to-head in the Environment Court as they scrap for water fromthe Waimakariri River. Ngai Tahu has filed an application of declaration in theEnvironment Court to determine who is entitled to the last two ...
Barker defends courts against log-jam claim
Dec 01, 2005; ... National has called on the Government to "get off its backside"and sort out a growing log jam in the criminal courts. Law and order spokesman Simon Power released answers to writtenquestions yesterday that showed defendants were waiting longer tohave their cases heard. The ...
Milk bottle bites the dust; Demise of glass leaves a bitter taste
Dec 01, 2005; ... New Zealand's last glass bottles of milk were delivered toChristchurch homes yesterday, ending an era and prompting outragefrom environmentalists. The last bottles rolled off Meadow Fresh's production line inHornby, the country's only remaining milk-bottling plant, early ...
One eye on the ball and an elbow on the bar
Dec 01, 2005; ... Put two or three Kiwis together anywhere in the world and odds onthey will have a game of rugby. PAUL THOMPSON reports from theworld's southernmost rugby field at Scott Base. The ground is bumpy and frozen, polyprop underwear is compulsoryand the wind comes straight off Mount ...
Crime by women hits new high
Dec 01, 2005; ... Crime committed by Canterbury women has reached an eight-year highon the back of stealing and fraud. New police apprehension figures show Canterbury officers listed4536 offences against women in the past financial year -- 500 morethan the previous year and the highest since ...
Schools' feedback on Maori criticised
Dec 01, 2005; ... A battle is brewing between school principals and the EducationReview Office (ERO) over claims schools are under-reporting Maoriachievement issues. In a briefing report to the Minister of Education Steve Maharey,ERO acting chief review officer Mike Hollings said schools ...
Secretary expenses revealed
Dec 01, 2005; ... National MP Bob Clarkson paid a secretary at least $300 a week towork on his election campaign -- payments which could cost him theTauranga seat if they are ruled part of his expenses. The revelation that the secretary -- a woman who works for one ofClarkson's companies and named ...
Necessary commitment
Dec 01, 2005 ... Three years after the toppling of the fanatical Taliban regimethat had imposed an extremist form of Islamic government inAfghanistan and made the country a haven for the al-Qaeda terroristsled by Osama bin Laden, Afghanistan remains only fitfully at peace.In the capital Kabul, Hamid ...
Time running out for pupils over India trip
Dec 01, 2005; ... Time is running out for a group of Christchurch high schoolstudents, due to fly to India on a school trip on Tuesday, who are inlimbo waiting for their visa applications to be approved. St Thomas of Canterbury College principal Bruce Stevenson said 23students from his school, ...
Paedophile's sister brutally targeted
Dec 01, 2005 ... With regard to Sonja Barker's letter (Nov 29) on the Brightonpaedophile case, I take exception to her saying she has "no concernfor the rights of the offender, only the rights of his victims". Isuggest Ms Barker also has no concern for any other individual'srights either. As a ...
Forced to act
Dec 01, 2005 ... The editorial on the Brighton paedophile failed to address thereal issue (Nov 29). It placed blame on the community, the actions ofa few and concentrated on sideshow issues such as the regrettablebreakage of a neighbouring window. It failed to address or even admitthat there are far ...
Enough!
Dec 01, 2005 ... The imminent demise of the glass milk bottle provides an opportunemoment to consider packaging, waste, who pays and who benefits. It is an entirely rational business decision to abandon reusableglass bottles in favour of Tetra Paks or plastic bottles whenratepayers and the ...
Recall the facts
Dec 01, 2005 ... Bruce Irvine seeks to justify Converge 05 (Nov 23). Whatpolitically correct rubbish he writes. Let's recall the facts. Paddy Austin seeks council funding of$500,000 for an event, while a councillor and member of theCanterbury Development Corporation board. Her passionate speech ...
Better than the rest
Dec 01, 2005 ... I was appalled to read your editorial Troubling Times atChristchurch's Art Gallery (Nov 26) and the corresponding piece byChristopher Moore. As a visitor to Christchurch for the weekend, I was not onlyimpressed with the magnificent building -- surely the most excitingin New ...
Dump the dam
Dec 01, 2005 ... Dams are supposed to be producers not abusers of power, so itdefies reason that a private company could be granted powers normallyassociated with the Public Works Act (Nov 25). What could possibly give so few the right to pillage half theWaimakariri's current flow? Is no ...
Two-way street
Dec 01, 2005 ... Helen Clark feels that "one of the phenomena in Europe was second-generation Muslim immigrants being involved in terrorism" (Nov 21).Her solution was "social cohesion and inclusion, so we didn't growalienated populations". If she sincerely believes that to be true,why does her Government ...
Fundamentally simple
Dec 01, 2005 ... Roy Holmes (Nov 25) agrees with Cullen's reasoning on tax cuts.Instead, he should consider that "growth" is an increase in goods andservices which are created by businesses that must fund this creationwith working capital until paid by customers. Growth of wealth (goodsand services) ...
Flawed reasoning
Dec 01, 2005 ... I take issue with your editorial of November 24, in which youdescribe opponents to the abolition of Banks Peninsula DistrictCouncil as separatists. You do many of them a great disservice. Mightnot the 51 per cent of Akaroa and 67% of Wairewa residents simply beexpressing a different but ...
Gives us an edge
Dec 01, 2005 ... The All Blacks' new haka is no more offensive than the Crusaderhorsemen, riding around with broadswords, creating the drama ofstriking down visiting enemy at Jade Stadium, or the sword-wieldingHighlander at Carisbrook. Perhaps the English should present the All Blacks with their ...
Sowing the wind
Dec 01, 2005 ... So some Christ's College seniors indulged in "utterlyunacceptable" behaviour by damaging the venue at their leavers' ball(Nov 29). Well, why shouldn't they misbehave? I mean, look at theexample we set before them. Only in the previous week, on state-funded TV, viewers ...
Be kind to the boss
Dec 01, 2005 ... Martin van Beynen sought readers' help to find the most Scrooge-like bosses, in regard to Christmas parties (Nov 26). How outrageous!Perhaps, instead, ...
In a few words
Dec 01, 2005 ... It is curious that Helen Clark has informed Singapore's PrimeMinister of New Zealand's concerns about the planned execution ofAustralian drug trafficker Nguyen Tuong Van. It is none of herbusiness what transpires between two other sovereign nations in theenforcement of established laws ....
Police release poached turtles
Dec 01, 2005 ... Brazilian environmental police inspect some of the hundreds offresh-water turtles they seized from poachers along the Branco Riverin the northernmost Brazilian state of Roraima. Police discovered theturtles ...
DIARY
Dec 01, 2005; ... Billy's beef Bill of Rangiora has a serious complaint. His beef is Peeps'scampaign to see off economic recession by waving at campervans like alunatic, which readers will recall is aimed at stimulating thetourism industry by showing the world what a friendly nation we ...
Ellis pulls out of vote
Dec 01, 2005; ... Charlie's Group shareholders did not question founder Marc Ellisabout his conviction for drug possession. More than 100 Charlie's shareholders were greeted by female staffdressed as nuns, to symbolise the purity of the listed juice firm'sproducts, and the celebrity sports star, as ...
Apple Fields loss increases to $365,000
Dec 01, 2005; ... Apple Fields' loss has grown as the firms company heads down theroad to recovery. The former Christchurch orchard business turned property developerhit a low last year, but has restructured and is working to get backinto the development game through investment in a subdivision ...
Unions to take Air NZ bid to court
Dec 01, 2005; ... The unions representing Air New Zealand's 2100 engineering staffare launching a legal action to try to stave off plans to lay offclose to a third of their number. The Government-owned airline is in the midst of a round of severecost-cutting, with 617 jobs earmarked to go at Air ...
Don't spare the horses
Dec 01, 2005 ... Strappers and stable hands exercise thoroughbred race horses inBotany Bay as an Emirates Air passenger aircraft taxis before takeoffat Sydney Airport this week. Emirates Air, which sponsorsAustralasia's richest horse race, the Melbourne Cup and Worldwide itspends $US200 million ($NZ290m) ...
Fewer homes built, rates hike likely
Dec 01, 2005; ... Home building is cooling, but it will not be enough to stopanother interest rate rise next week, as household borrowing is stillgalloping ahead. Nationally, house consents fell 7 per cent in October, and dropped27% for the year. Home building is steady in Wellington, but ...
Software in the red
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Mike Pero loses shares as wife walks away with half
Dec 01, 2005; ... Mike Pero has cut his stake in the company he founded down to 3per cent, but the move has nothing to do with a potential takeoveroffer. Pero's shareholding in the mortgage- broking business has been cutfrom 1.5m shares down to 750,000 following a matrimonial propertysettlement ...
APP to extend offer
Dec 01, 2005; ... AMP Property Portfolio's (APP) offer for Capital Properties hasbeen extended for another three weeks as it pursues its goal of 90per cent of the shares. So far APP has reached just over 76% with its 148c a share offer,and wants to get to 90% so it can compulsorily acquire the rest ...
Gold breaks $500
Dec 01, 2005; ... The gold price has hit an 18-year high, but jewellers say itshould not affect the cost of Christmas glitter. Gold prices broke through $US500 ($NZ712) an ounce in Asiantrading on Tuesday for the first time since late 1987, driven byinvestor demand for gold as a diversifying asset ....
Business drives efficiency
Dec 01, 2005; ... The business sector's drive is to more fuel efficient cars,investing more heavily than private owners in models that cost lessto run and which are more environmentally friendly. Motor Industry Association (MIA) statistics for the five months toOctober show fleet cars purchased ...
Fraud cases skyrocket
Dec 01, 2005; ... The amount of fraud reported in this part of the world hasskyrocketed in a recent survey, but it is more likely to be increasedawareness than a corporate crime spree. PricewaterhouseCoopers' global economic crime survey for 2005found 63 per cent of Australian business' surveyed ...
SEA, AIR, RAIL
Dec 01, 2005 ... PORT OF LYTTELTON VESSELS IN PORT Brandywine, No. 2 West. Dong Won 701, Dry Dock. Independent 1, Z Berth. Malakhov Kurgan, Gladstone Pier East. Oyang No. 70, No.3 East. Oyang No. 77, No.3 West. Oyang No. 97, No.3 West ....
NAB arm sold to Axa
Dec 01, 2005; ... National Australia Bank (NAB) is selling its New Zealand managedfunds subsidiary, BNZ Investment Management to Axa Asia PacificHoldings. The sale price is not being disclosed. BNZ Investment Management has $2.4 billion funds under managementand 40,000 investment clients ....
we're drinking
Dec 01, 2005; ... Seductive angel Longridge Rose 2005, $14.95 Strawberries, lychees and cherries combine their irresistibleforces in this succulent wine. Don't try to drink it with food,however. It won't stand up to anything stronger than vanillaicecream. But as a sipping wine before a meal ...
Eat more avocado is this week's slogan
Dec 01, 2005 ... "They haven't been this cheap since World War 2," says onevegetable veteran. From 25c each (Raeward Fresh, Harewood Road), surely, a lavishspread of the smooth- nutty-buttery flesh is in order. Try this Cut 4 rashers of bacon into eight pieces and cook in a ...
Three-for-one
Dec 01, 2005; ... IT'S BEEN A WHILE SINCE I USED A GARLIC PRESS. I succumbed topressure from the culinary police; those busybodies who insistanything mechanical near a precious clove of garlic is a food sin upthere with the seven deadlies. I'm over it. Amco Housewares GarlicPress and slicer is a ...